Cave

**[Intro – low, distant]**

Yeah.

I tried to drown it.

Didn’t work.

**[Verse 1]**

Substances cannot sedate the brain of an escapist

I chased a calm I never found, just different stages

Every vice a temporary truce with my reflection

I don’t need a savior, I need less direction

The only high that makes me sane is pain of those I hated

Fuel from every slight, every lie I tolerated

I learned to carry it precise, no dramatization

Pressure makes a blade, not an explanation

**[Pre-Chorus]**

Drawing from frustrations, my greatest illustration

Calling me an artist

But I’m only your creation

Built me from your silence, sharpened by neglect

If I sound calculated, it’s ‘cause chaos taught me math

**[Chorus]**

Bitch, I never begged for the cause

So it’s nothing lost

I don’t mourn what never wanted me involved

I’ma break away, find an island, and I’m fucking off

No smoke signals, no applause

Just me gone

**[Verse 2]**

I don’t pray for mercy, I negotiate with truth

Every scar a footnote, every doubt a proof

You confuse my distance for resentment or retreat

Nah, I just stopped bleeding in the street

Everybody wants a piece when the engine finally hums

But nobody was here when it was falling apart in chunks

Now they say I changed—yeah, that’s kind of the point

I don’t owe the past a second joint

**[Pre-Chorus]**

You call it selfish when I don’t repeat the cycle

I call it discipline, survival with a rifle scope

Still aiming inward, still correcting my alignment

I don’t need your label, I define it

**[Chorus]**

Bitch, I never begged for the cause

So it’s nothing lost

I don’t miss a room that was built on applause

I’ma break away, find an island, and I’m fucking off

No goodbye songs, no monologue

Just gone

**[Bridge – half-time, reflective]**

If pain made me, then I made peace with the cost

If hate fueled the fire, I learned how to exhaust

I don’t glamorize the damage, I itemize it

Then close the book and don’t romanticize it

**[Final Verse]**

They said I’d fade without the noise, without the crowd

Funny how I hear myself the clearest now

I’m not healed, I’m honest, that’s a different lane

I don’t numb the ache—I integrate the pain

**[Outro – calm, resolved]**

No substances.

No saviors.

No cause to die for.

Just distance.

Just clarity.

Just me fucking off.